As civil war-torn Myanmar struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake, the United States is facing criticism that it ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday rejected criticism that Washington was slow to respond to the March 28 earthquake because USAID was dismantled. Rather, he told reporters in Brussels, Myanmar ...

One former US Agency for International Development (USAID) mission director for Myanmar told the BBC that "America has been on the sidelines" after the disaster. "The US basically was not there for ...

After the Trump administration’s assaults on USAID, and pushback from its allies, where are we today? Well, a lot of ...

The earthquake is the first big natural disaster to strike overseas since the new Trump administration started gutting USAID, and can thus be seen as the first real-time test of the policy’s effects.

The Trump administration fired three workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday as they were in Myanmar to assess damage from the earthquake and to report back on ...

With the military mostly absent from post-earthquake rescue and recovery, ordinary people have taken it upon themselves to ...

Myanmar faces devastation from earthquake aftermath amid political turmoil, financial aid cuts, and humanitarian crisis, requiring international assistance.

In Myanmar, foreign rescuers have been hauling quake victims from the rubble. Meanwhile, the American aid response, amid massive cuts, has been minimal.

The sharp decline stems in part from the US government’s abrupt dismantling of foreign aid. The US provided 30 percent of aid ...

The 7.7-magnitude earthquake shook Southeast Asia on March ... to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development -- USAID. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events ...

said Wong, former deputy administrator of USAID’s Bureau ... respond to the March 28 earthquake because USAID was dismantled. Rather, he told reporters in Brussels, Myanmar was not "the easiest ...